I've been a HAMBer for almost a year, but didn't get around to this intro 'til now. What can I say -- I write slow but drive fast. I grew up in Philadelphia drawing rods & choppers and building models. Ed Roth and Von Dutch were gods. I started rodding at 15 (1957 Dodge with a polyspherical turning a push ****on torqueflite) and drove for a year before I could get a license. A bunch of us started an outlaw biker gang, but nobody could afford a bike. Really lame. After that I got serious and did the ******** street racer thing with a wicked fast V8 Vega. That lead to jobs fabricating racecars and a career in Industrial Design. Over the years I've owned too many cars to list; but the list of cars I should have bought is better anyway. I've watched the street rod industry destroy hotrodding over the last 30 years. Hotrods have to have AT***UDE and so do the people who build them. Real hotrods are made by hand -- not bought and ***embled. The HAMB is heading up the movement to keep true hotrodding alive and I'm proud to be here.
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